Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Authors of The Flat Foot Floogie with the Floy Floy, Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart, do not know themselves what the words mean. Said Slim: "We were sort of talking a new language." The dance they had vaguely in mind was to be done flatfoot. "When we put the floy floy on it, that was extra business. You got the whole dance right there; you're swinging. See what I mean...
...civilians had no reason to care what that army was doing they had good reason to care what that army was: something new under the U. S. sun, something that is costing civilians a pretty penny for reasons and for things that most civilians know nothing about...
Recreation leaders know that unless a playground is within half a mile of the child's house, he will play in the streets. To U. S. children. WPA has brought thousands of new playgrounds in the last three years. Great Britain will try another way. Announced last week was the organization of the Five Million Club, chairmaned by Rugby School's headmaster P. H. B. Lyon. It urged school children and adults to become members at a shilling a year, promised that each sixpence would buy a square foot of playground. The club has already signed...
Even schoolboys know that birds mate in the spring, but even a bright schoolboy could hardly tell why. Biologist James C. Perry of Cincinnati's Xavier University, no schoolboy by a long shot, was convinced last week that it is not so much the flowers that bloom in the spring as what birds eat that affects their mating cycle. Other investigators had advanced the theory that increased exposure to sunlight in the spring is the sex stimulus. This theory they checked experimentally by inducing sex gland activity with artificial illumination. It looked as if the light stimulated the front...
Where Miss Thompson excels is in enthusiasm. "I know now that there are things for which I am prepared to die," she writes. "I am willing to die for political freedom, for the right to give my loyalty to ideals above a nation or above a class. . . ." Miss Thompson's other offers, in print, to die: (for Austria; rather than accept fascism...